Arranging a call

A call is arranged inside the conversation, as a card both of you can act on.

Proposing

"Suggest a call" in the conversation header. You choose a length, where it happens, and up to three times.

Lengths are 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes, or one you type. Five minutes is a real option: "have you got five minutes" is a real thing to ask somebody.

Where it happens is Zoom, Meet, Teams, Skype, a phone call, or somewhere else. The first four want the link. A phone call can carry a note, and "somewhere else" needs one: a booked call that says "somewhere else" and nothing more is a call neither of you can attend.

Both clocks, always

Every proposed time is shown in your clock and in theirs, side by side, on both sides. Nothing here silently converts a time and shows you one number.

Answering

The other person picks one of your times, or proposes their own, which passes the turn back to you. There is a cap on the rounds, held in the database rather than in the interface, so a negotiation cannot run for ever.

Once it is booked

A banner sits above the conversation with the time in your clock, where it is, and a Join link. It is at most one row by construction: a pair can only have one live call at a time.

It also appears on your dashboard, in Upcoming calls, which lists calls still waiting on the other person as well as booked ones, because "did they ever answer?" is exactly what somebody opens that card to find out.

Moving or cancelling

Either side can do either, at any time, and the other is told.

Moving a call is a new invitation rather than an edit, which is why the calendar file has a new identifier: a moved call is a fresh thing to accept, and every calendar client handles that predictably, while an edited one they do not.

Cancelling is never blocked, for anybody, including when a subscription has ended. Nobody should be unable to call something off.

Who can arrange one

Any client can propose a call. A freelancer can only answer if their ID has been verified: the refusal is on their side rather than yours, so you are never told about somebody else's verification state.